Deadline: 31 March 2020
In the Asia Pacific region, many libraries, archives and memory institutions face formidable challenges: economic, climatic and geographic. The MOWCAP-ACC Grants Programme aims to contribute to addressing this challenge by assisting with preservation of and universal access to documentary heritage of the Asia/Pacific region, and also to increase awareness of the existence and significance of the heritage.
The Programme supports the efforts of the many groups and organisations that collect, and preserve and provide access to documentary heritage from the Asia-Pacific region. It aims to encourage collaboration and partnerships to undertake projects (e.g. preservation of materials, digitising, exhibitions, and publications) as well as to develop skills and resources (e.g. workshops, training programmes, expert assessments).
UNESCO’s Memory of the World (MOW) Program is an international cooperation strategy aimed at safeguarding, protecting and facilitating access to and the use of documentary heritage, especially heritage that is rare and endangered. UNESCO launched the Program in 1992 to guard against collective amnesia by calling upon the preservation of invaluable archive holdings and library collections all over the world and ensuring their wide dissemination.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $US 5,000 are made for the preservation and sharing of the documentary heritage of the Asia-Pacific. Grants are required to be fully expended, and the project completed and acquitted, within a 6- month period (June-November 2020).
- The grants are administered through the MOWCAP Office, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
What sort of projects will be considered for funding?
- The development of e-publications;
- Conservation of documentary heritage (If a conservator is engaged, they should be a member of an accredited national or international conservation organisation);
- Cataloguing records and archival description (open source archival description software such as ICAAtoM
- The development of exhibitions (including digital ones)
- Web projects that provide information or resources on documentary heritage;
- Digital storytelling about documentary heritage (including film and DVD projects);
- Apps for mobile devices;
- Consultancy fees for the provision of specialist skills not found within the organisation;
- The purchase of archival quality materials;
- The digitisation and publishing of documentary heritage items/collections;
- Training and capacity building in the area of the preservation/access to documentary heritage.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply for a grant through MOWCAP-ACC Grants Programme your organisation will need to meet the following criteria.
- The organisation applying must be:
- Based in the Asia-Pacific
- Non-Government
- Have support from your National MoW Committee or UNESCO National Commission
- Note: Government agencies (archives, museums, etc.) may partner with a non-government organisation to apply.
For more information, visit http://www.mowcapunesco.org/grants/